SUPERB – AT 12:46 P.M. ET:   Why are the Democrats so bitter?  It's an intriguing question.  Others lose elections and go on with their lives, using their time to reorganize.  But Democrats are nearing riot.  Maybe we'll even see a mass exodus to another planet.  Why?  Seth Lipsky, one of the best journalists in New York, has written a superb piece on this for the New York Post, answering the question.  A must read: 

So why are the Democrats so bitter?...Why the incessant weeping and wailing?

The most persuasive theory is that it has nothing to do with meddling by the Russians or James Comey or the crustiness of Trump’s campaign or his personal behavior. Rather, it’s something other than politics. It’s almost psychiatric.

This was an insight I first heard from one of my journalistic mentors, Robert Bartley, editor of the Wall Street Journal. Shortly before he died, he wrote two columns on the anger of the Democrats.

Bartley comprehended that the Democrats’ fury went beyond politics and “must have deeper, subconscious roots.” His theory was that they were unable to deal with a sense they were losing their “birthright.”

What he meant was that, as he put it, “base Democrats think of themselves as the best people: the most intelligent and informed, the most public spirited, the most morally pure.” If that’s what’s at stake, no wonder they’re so devastated.

At the time Bartley wrote those columns — late 2003 — the Democrats were gearing up to run John Kerry for president. They seemed as confident of impending victory then as Hillary Clinton was just three months ago.

But, as Bartley warned in a particularly prophetic column, that confidence belied the weakness of the glue that held together the party’s coalition. The Democratic Party, he wrote, “has descended into a collection of interest groups not bound together by any ideals.” It was floundering before the American people.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's the best psychological analysis of the Democratic Party that I've seen recently.  It's not so much a party as a state of mind, not so much a set of beliefs as a new religion. 

One more major loss and we may well see the need for a new party, to take up where the Democrats are leaving off.

January 21, 2017